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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jazz Pianist Roberta Piket’s Trio Featuring Billy Mintz and
Jeff D’Angelo tours the West Coast in October
Critically acclaimed New York pianist Roberta Piket and drummer Billy Mintz bring their music to the West coast in October featuring L.A. mainstay Jeff D’Angelo on bass. In addition to performing originals by Billy and Roberta, the trio will play works from the upcoming CD release Sides, Colors. (Preview copies will be available.) Roberta’s musical point of view is sophisticated and mature, yet accessible to the sensitive listener. Always passionate and heartfelt, this is music that touches the audience without coddling it. By popular request this year, look for Roberta to sing more as well. The Roberta Piket Trio’s unique combination of artistry, creativity and swing is not to be missed!
Roberta Piket has played professionally as a sidewoman with David Liebman, Rufus Reid, Michael Formanek, Lionel Hampton and the BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra and has twice been a featured guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, on National Public Radio. Roberta regularly tours Europe, and plays at some of New York’s most distinguished venues including Smalls and Dizzy’s Jazz Club at Lincoln Center. She has six CDs released as a leader on various independent labels.
Jeff D’Angelo is a self-taught musician who briefly lived in New York City where he worked with such artists as John Scofield, Jeremy Steig, Karl Ratzer, Bob Devos, Chuck and Gap Mangione. In 1981 he moved to Los Angeles at the request of Doc Severinsen, who hired Jeff to be part of his newly formed jazz fusion band, Xebron. Jeff has lived and worked in Los Angeles ever since, performing both as a member of Xebron and as a featured soloist in Doc’s pop symphony act, sharing the stage with almost every major American orchestra. Jeff is currently a working bassist on the L.A. jazz scene. Over the years he has had the great pleasure to perform and record with Bob Sheppard, Bill Cunliffe, Tom Scott, Roger Kellaway, Rob Lochart, Rich Eames, and many more.
In an extraordinary career spanning nearly 40 years, Billy Mintz has played with some of the biggest names in the jazz world including Lee Konitz, Eddie Daniels, Harold Danko, Mose Allison, Mark Murphy, Bobby Shew, Charles Lloyd, Vinny Golia, and the Alan Broadbent Trio. Mr. Mintz has written two books: Different Drummers, originally published by Aamsco Music Publishing and Advanced Sticking and SightReading (BM Publications). In recent years, Mr. Mintz has taken on new roles as a bandleader and a composer, performing his own compositions with various ensembles. He also frequently performs solo drumset concerts.
For details please see itinerary below.
Roberta Piket Trio: Fall 2010 tour
Thursday, October 14, 2010 Palomar College of Performing Arts
12:30pm – 1:30pm 1140 W. Mission Road
Free Admission San Marcos, CA 92069
www.palomar.edu/performingarts
Thursday, October 14, 2010 Santa Barbara New Music Series
8pm Muddy Waters
$8 Cover 508 East Haley Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
www.colterfrazier.com/sbnewmusicseries.html
Saturday, October 16, 2010 South Pasadena Music Conservatory
8pm 1509 Mission Street
$10 Cover (Discount for Seniors/Students) South Pasadena, CA 91030
Opening group: Call and Response www.southpasadenamusic.com
ft. Dottie Grossman, poetry and
Michael Pierre Vlatkovich, trombone
Monday, October 18, 2010 California Institute of the Arts
2pm – 4pm 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Saddleback College
4pm – 5pm Clinic 28000 Marguerite Parkway
7pm Concert Mission Viejo, CA 92629
$10 cover; $7 students/seniors www.saddleback.edu/arts/Music.html
Thursday, October 21, 2010 Dizzy’s
8pm San Diego Wine & Culinary Center
$10 Cover Harbor Club Towers Ground Fl.
2nd & J Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Sunday, October 24, 2010 Chez Hanny
4pm 1300 Silver Avenue
$20 suggested donation San Francisco, CA 94134
www.chezhanny.com
Monday, October 25,, 2010 Luna’s Café
Roberta Piket-Billy Mintz Duo 1414 16th Street
8pm Sacramento, CA 95814
Saturday, October 30, 2010 Artistic Piano Gallery
with Steve Willis, bass 1390 Biddle Road Suite 102
6:30pm Pre-Show Talk Medford, OR 97504
7:30pm Concert www.artisticpianogallery.com
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$20 cover, $15 Siskiyou Institute members, $5 students |